July 10, 2023 • 61 mins
Moon Star Radio presents a Sailor Venus Interview Special! On only do you get the full interview between Chris and Emilie Claire Barlow, but Stephanie Morgenstern makes an appearance as well! While mostly known as the voice of Sailor Venus, Emilie originally joined the cast as Katie Griffin's replacement for Sailor Mars. When Griffin returned, Emilie was offered the role of Sailor Venus!
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M h I bet you anything.It's those crepizoids from the Nega Moon MENA
time to go to work? HM crypta venus star. How I may
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just be one little cat, butthere's gotta be a waitus top this creep
mystery. Artemis, here's your chanceto be heroically. Oh come on,
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guys, whose side are you on? Anyways? My side? Luna?
Oh please, Artemis, you cannotbeat all these widout animals all by your
snoll. Sure I can stand backand watch me. I'm gonna proof to
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you. I'm not punched that cat, but you olverady? Really yeah,
cats, Luda, maybe love Sha, you use your powers to turn into
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some animals into vicious Niga moon brooms. Shame on you for terrorizing people.
It is up to us to juststop you. I want for loving justice.
I'm to sanish all is evil Asailor Moon, I'm Sailor b and
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you're burnt toast toast. When I'mdone, she'll be nothing but breadcrumbs.
I know no voices from sailor Moon. Is that right? We have a
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sailor Jupiter here, who's Susan andStephanie is sor and just holding up these
pretty pictures. Yeah, can Iget you guys to do something just like
interact like as as as Sailor Jupiterand Sailor Venus beach the actresses and come
up with a himpromptu Sailor Venus SailorJupiter scene and then we'll we'll just hold
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up the pictures and you can shakethe pictures, you know, like,
oh, I say, okay,something quick, right, okay, um,
let's see okay Venus lean where isSailor room? I have no idea.
What are you talking about? Whenshe at school? She wasn't studying.
I know that. I suspect thethere's trouble coming trouble. Could it
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be tuxedo Mass. I don't tuxedomasks not in trouble. We always have
to rescue him. I know.Well I don't think that's right. I
think he always rescues us, whichI have a problem with it. Anyway,
we won't get into that right now, he won't. And then you
come over here and Aldo, whywhy are you talking about that? Is
that tuxedo mass Oppuccino walking in theonly voice I can do? What was
that out? It's so authentic?Okay, So I there's an event you
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guys are going to tonight. Yeah, what is it exactly? It's UTARPA,
which is the UFTU Anime and RolePlaying as Association, and they meet
every month and they show hours andhours worth of anime starting I think it's
tied around sixty thirty and going intoa quite late. It's just NonStop Japanese
animation, right really yea, andI hear you guys have sort of become
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fans through the shelf through doing workon the show. Yeah. I hadn't
been exposed to anime before this,and now that I'm kind of part of
an anime family, I got moreand more informed that I went to the
last UTARPA convention and it just blewmy mind, the quality of the images,
the sophistication of the stories, thestuff we never see in North America.
Yea. The Japanese very much orinto like they have comments that that
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they're no dialogue and just they dolike simple storytelling. They're still into the
stories, and whereas North America wecan all those comics where there's no dialogue
in the comic. Sometimes sometimes theyhave those kind of just picture by picture,
but you know these panels, Soyeah, I see what you mean,
so, so what is it aboutthe anime that that kind of excites
you? Guys? I mean isit the style? It's I mean,
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it definitely has a Look, well, I have to say one thing,
this is going to be my firstanime experience. I've never this is because
definitely has definitely is the one,and so this tonight will be the first
time that I can actually find outwhat it's all about firsthand myself, because
it'll hook. Yeah. Yeah,okay, we get tons and tons of
reason. What do you think thatis? It's it's it's a big it's
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a big, big thing. Yeah, well, it's neat to find that
out because we don't know that.We have no idea about that. You
have no idea? No, wedidn't know when we started doing this series.
We had no clue of the scaleof this cult. We just had
no idea. Yeah. Yeah,well, I actually maybe in the beginning,
no nobody really knew because it wasn'tme. But as soon as it
came on the Zone, I'll tellyou as a huge, huge, huge
hit. Well it's that way inevery country in which it appears. Did
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you know that? I don't knowwhy? There's something about it? I
mean, I don't know, Ialways figured positive female role models. Well
it's also I always found is great. Also you get um an ongoing story,
which you normally don't get in cartoonsat all, and that way you
get to know the character is awhole lot better. They have this mythic
history that goes on for centuries.It's a cosmic soap opera. Yeah,
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that's what it is. You knowwhat you know, you know, Toxedo
mask and it's it's kind of it'sin there in school, you know,
which is a there's a normal life. And then yeah, and also Sailor
Moon herself, who is I thinkI just whenever I see that mouth of
hers, you know, the wayshe's always going like, yeah, that
incredibly dany animation. I love thatbecause that's that's a real little girl.
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Really. Oh yeah, I know. Okay, thank you very much.
We have Okay, Susan Roman andStephanie Morganstern, thank you very much for
coming up, and Sailor Moon's comingup next. Sooga your dato on the
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show'st seem lets. Hello everybody,and welcome back to another episode of Moonstar
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Radio. Today we are getting intoa really incredible interview with Emily Claire Barlow,
who did the voice of Sailor Marsfor a portion of Sailor Moon r
that season two and Sailor Venus fourseasons three and four of the original English
dub of Sailor Moon. The clipyou heard at the beginning today was actually
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the original voice of Sailor Venus fromseason one and season two, which is
Stephanie morgan Stern. And the reasonI put that in there is because I
did a lot of digging and thatclip is pretty much the only interview I
was able to find, so Iwanted to share that with you. And
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I love her portrayal of Venus asmuch as Emily's, which we get later
on, So this was a greattime for that. And I'm going to
give you just a little info abouther. Born to a Canadian family in
Geneva, Switzerland and raised in Montreal, Quebec, morgan Stern is married to
actor Mark Ellis, who wrote withher as a writing partner. She has
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a brother, Mark morgan Stern,with whom she also co writes and directs
with. She began her career whenshe was fifteen and has worked extensively on
stage, film and television. Inboth English and French. Her most widely
seen feature film credits have been TheSweet Hereafter Mail Storm, Reward, Julie,
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I Think That's Correct, and ForbiddenLove. Morgenstern also provided the voice
for Yen in the Disney cartoon YinYang Yo and Regina in the original Dino
Crisis game produced by Capcom. Winleyrecognized as the original well because she was
the original voice actor of Mina youKnow Slash, Sailor Venus in the Deep
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and Pioneer Entertainment productions of Sailor Moonduring the first and second seasons. When
asked to return, Morgenstern declined toon account of other commitments to on screen
projects. Morganstern was replaced by EmilyClaire Barlowe, who we will hear from
later today Ray he Knows, secondvoice actress during Sailor Moon r. Morgan
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Stern, however, did reprise therole of Mina in the Sailor Moon films,
The Promise of the Rose Hearts inIce and Black Dream Hoole. Lorgan
Stern makes occasional appearances at anime conventionsat the request of fans for Sailor Moon
panel discussions. I believe the reasonshe's in the movies as well is because
the entire deep cast did the movies, so it was they did all of
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them. Even though they go upto Superass and then Cloverway only did seasons
three and four of the actual showitself. They didn't touch the movies as
far as I know. So that'sjust some information about her. I think
she does a great job as SailorVenus. But let me just set up
Emily then, because we're about todig into her interview, which I'm excited
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for you guys to get into.We learn a lot of interesting things about
her. Born to parents who wereprofessional musicians, she was encouraged to sing
and study several instruments, including piano, cello, clarinet, and violin.
By age seven, she has begunher career singing television and radio commercials.
Barlow's first album, Sings, wasreleased in nineteen ninety eight. She has
received three nominations for Canada's Juno Awardsand was named Female Vocalist of the Year
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at two thousand and eight National JazzAwards. Amongst her musical influences, Barlow
has named artists Ella Fitzgerald, TonyBennett, and Stevie Wonder. Barlow has
also provided voices for several animated televisionseries, including Sailor Venus and Sailor Mars
as we know in Sailor Moon,Bakugan, Battle Brawlers, and Total Drama,
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which she talks a lot about today. I think she really enjoyed Total
Drama the most as none of thevibe I get from her, and that's
fine. But yeah, so there'sa little about Emily and let's just jump
into the interview. I can't waitfor you guys, hear it. Also,
I put a song by her,just a little preview at the end
today because I actually really love herversion of this popular song. I think
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you guys will too. And therewill be links to support her as well
as Stephanie and whatever I can findto support her in today's episode description,
So check those out. All right, let's get into the show. All
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right, Thank you hear me?Okay, yeah, thanks for I want
to do this. Oh problem,Sorry it took me so long. Thanks
for being persistent. So I canjust start from the beginning in terms of
outside outside of your music career.I was wondering what it was like being
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in uh oh, what a night. Oh wow, that's a great way
to kick things off. You know, I haven't thought about that movie in
so long. Thank you for remindingme. Um. So, okay,
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Well, I was I think Iwas fourteen or fifteen years old, and
I was already singing professionally, andso I was kind of working already,
and I remember that I was askedto do this kind of corporate show and
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it was a sort of unusual fromwhat I was normally doing, which was
singing in studios. And some ofthe other kids that were in this corporate
show had agents, like acting agents, and so I was around that time
when I said to my mom,Mom, I want to I want to
get an acting agent. She's like, do you want to act? Okay?
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And I never So we looked aroundand we found an agent, and
then you know, my agent startedsending me out on auditions. Again.
I didn't really have much experience withthe audition process, and this movie came
one a night, and actually auditionedfor the female lead in the movie,
and for whatever reason, they tookmy performance to be comedic, and I
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wasn't trying to be funny, andso they ended up casting me as this
character of Lorraine, who was justa little part in the movie, and
she's supposed to be a kind ofa comedic role. And I was excited
to learn that I got a partin a movie, and even more excited
when I learned that Corey Haim wasthe start of a movie, right because
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he was like a teen idol,you know. I had pictures of him
on my wall from Tiger Beat magazine, and now I was going to be
in a movie with him. Sothe whole thing was quite surreal. But
one thing that I do remember isthat some people go on a movie set
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and they think, I love this, this is where I was meant to
be. I did not have thatfeeling. I did not fall in love
with the process of being on set, and there's a lot of waiting around.
So I think I decided kind ofafter a few more little appearances.
It wasn't really for me. ButI want to go back and watch that
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movie because I bet it's hilarious.How did you feel then, when a
voiceover opportunity came along in comparison,I loved it because for me, I
grew up spending time in studios.My mother is a singer and my father's
a drummer, and they were bothlike session musicians, which was they were
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extremely busy working recording musicians in theseventies and eighties in Toronto, and there
was a very big music scene inToronto. People were coming there to make
records, and so they would workevery day the week and sometimes on the
weekend in studios. So that wasa very comfortable place for me to be.
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And I started singing on commercials myselfwhen I was about eight years old.
I was in the studio and theyneeded a kid's voice, and they
could hear that I was humming themelody and I seemed to have a good
sense of pitch, and so Istarted. And then I've actually told this
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story, I think before, butI was probably not much older than that.
And I had done a few jingles, as we call them, and
I went in to do what Ithought was a jingle, but it turned
out that it was going to bea voiceover. And I felt very comfortable
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singing. Singing was something that camevery natural to me. I think I
knew that I was good at it. I felt confident. But they put
a scripts in front of me andI had it was like for a fabric
softener or something, and I thinkI had to say, oh, mommy,
you know my my towel feels sosoft or something like that, and
I got so nervous. I didn'twant to talk. And you know,
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my mom could sense that the tearswere welling up in my eyes. And
all the clients are waiting in thecontrol room, and she took me aside
and she said, honey, what'swrong. Okay, mommy, I don't
know how to talk. I onlyknow how to sing. And she she
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said, oh, okay, well, you know, if you don't want
to do what, you don't haveto. But I got through it,
and then for many years after that, I most I mostly start to singing.
And then I think when I wasaround seventeen or eighteen, um a
friend of mine and she you mightknow caw dot Um. He is a
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voice actor. He was like theoriginal Wolverine. Okay, yeah, and
he's a very very very busy,prolific voice actor. And he's a great
singer there too, And I usedto sing with him and he said to
me, hey, like, whywhy aren't you doing voiceover work? You
should be doing voiceover work. Iwas like, I don't know, and
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so he introduced me to his agents, Ed koob R and Paul Smith at
BTM ED the Talent Management, andthey have been my agents ever since.
So that's going back now almost thirtyyears, twenty five years, and so
that that's where I really started doingvoiceover work and going to voice auditions for
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announcer stuff for cartoons. That's reallywhen it started. So how long after
that then did you get the opportunityto replace Katie and Sailor Moon? Very
quickly? Actually, it was myfirst I was very lucky because it was
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my first audition and I booked itand the stars really aligned. I was,
I said, I was lucky.I was in the right place at
the right time, and I hadthe skills and I had a really good
voice match for Katie. So Isent out to this audition where I knew
that I was going to be replacingsomebody to try to match their voice.
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And so they sat me in aroom and I had never seen Sailor room
before, and I watched it andI had the scripts and I had to
do my best to sound like her, and like I said, it came
fairly easily because we just naturally havevery similar sounding voices. But I think
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that my music, my music training, my musicality, my sense of rhythm,
and my sense of pitch really reallyhelped me because I was able to
find where she was, like anactual pitch and match it and hear that
and recognize it. I was alsoable to match her speaking, you know,
speaking pattern and cadence, which issomething that's really important when you're doing
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dubbing because you have to fit inthe dialogue and a very predetermined space time.
So I think that the stars alignedfor me, you know, my
musicality, the luck of my voicesounding like hers, and signing on with
the agency. And I booked that, and I remember that I was I
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was out with my family, Ithink, like at an amusement park that
day. And I don't even thinkthat we had cell phones at that point.
Well maybe I had a cell phone, but I remember that I used
to have to call use a payphone and call to get my messages.
And I called and talked to myagencies. If you book the job episode
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sixty six and the Deek English dubfeatures Emily's dead, you a sailor Mars,
hand it over Brant or face theconsequences back off Rube. If that
overbearing loud wants you, Renie,You'll have to deal with the Sailor Scouts
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first. Fine by me, Sailorto just I'll wipe out a lot of
you wanted her all. You cantry Mars Celestial fin jes. That's all
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you've got any great meaning, Reniemust go, now, go quickly,
hurry, she's going nowhere. It'ssome kind of civil gravity've been making us
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heavy. We've got to find it. Scouts. I don't have the strength
Sailor Mercury. Maybe if we ruleour powers how you mean, we should
try the Sailor planet power. Butwithout Sailor Moon we won't have enough power
with just the farm us. We'vegot to do something. We have to
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save Reding. Oh, you're right, let's do it. Shooping ass start
power, bes, start blood,give it star by stop Sailor. Breeny
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gets going to get out of herenow, dude, I say, Brainy,
Now, don't worry, Marks,I'll take care of Brady. You
look out for yourself. No,the Chid's mine. It doesn't happen every
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day. And you booked your firsttime every every audition you go to and
it wasn't really Uh, it wasa great learning experience working on Sailor movie,
because like I said, we hadto do dubbing. You seem like
you probably know a lot about thisworld of dubbing and anime and in different
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methods of yeah, supporting cartoons,Am I right? And well? Because
Yeah, Katie was actually the firstvoice actor that I had interviewed back in
like this time last year, andI thought I was going to ask next,
because both Susan, Katie and Lindahad like separate stories of their own
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personal experience with Nicole. Nicole wasone of my very favorite, very first
voice directors, and she was shewas really tough. She was a tough
director. She would often ask usto do takes over and over and over
and over again, and you know, there was a lot of yelling,
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and so it was very taxing,very taxing. And you know, I'm
probably at that time was more naturallya kind of soft silic in person,
probably needed to work for me toget the volume that she wanted. But
I would say that she was knownfor being being a tough director, challenging
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and demanding, you know, um, and so I would say that those
sessions were quite stressful due to allof those things. And did you even
did you have to audition for Minatoo? Then? Yeah, and that
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was a really strange turn of eventsbecause um, there was a shake up,
you know, there was a shakeup of all kinds of casting,
and there was shake ups on theproduction team and director. And if I
do recall correctly, I remember gettingcalled into audition or several different roles.
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Okay, now Katie was back.I believe you probably know more than than
I do. And I remember beingvery surprised when I when I got asked
the Sailor venus because um, andthen and then I was really very much
trying to to voice match. Andthat's something I remember reading um back in
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this day, uh, you know, reading on fans forums and Sailor move
forums. There was like a lotof backlash, but they didn't like the
way I was doing the voice andyeah, I wanted to say, I'm
being directed. I don't get todecide, you know. Yeah. So,
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but it was such a fun experiencebecause I learned so much, and
whenever we got to record together asgroups, that was just the most fun
because you know, sometimes there wouldbe two or three of us that would
get to record together. If wehave a lot of lines together, and
it just really helped with with yourenergy. Um it's it also helped especially
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when you're having a tough day oryou're feeling that the director was being hard
on you and you you had thecamaraderie and the support of your fellow actors
and cast mates and we were allsort of in the same boat. So,
and could you personally related to Menaat all? No, not,
I would like to I'm going toanswer that question honestly. And I more
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felt a kinship with with Sailor Marsright, Okay, yeah, I just
I really liked the character, right, Yeah. And I know one person
from the original cast who's never beeninterviewed and nobody can really find. Now,
did you interact much with sarah LaFloor who was ran Us Oh you
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know, um, I remember hername, and I don't think that we
did many fashions together, if anyOkay, Yeah, I remember doing sessions
with Susan Susan Roman. Ye,m I think that I remember doing sessions
with Katie at some point when whenthe when the transitions at all happened.
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Oh and who played the character andshe had the little, tiny, tiny
baby voice. Oh, this isin the later seasons Greeny. Yeah,
and I'm trying to remember what hername was O Sessions, Yeah, yeah,
yeah, exactly. Yeah, wedid Sessions together. I remember that.
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But I like, I love all, I love all the people that
were involved in the show. Imean, it's a great group. And
I don't know if you're if you'veever been told of the reason why the
final season wasn't dubbed. Do youknow about the no tell me? Because
in the final season there's a groupof three guys that are also the love
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interest for the girls, but whenthey transform, like into their singular counterparts,
they transform into girls. So that'swhy I know that back then,
like that wouldn't have been allowed whereI had of their time. Yeah,
it's incredible to me how um howsolid and dedicated the Sailor Moon fandom is.
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It really blows my mind. Andso then after that, I guess
one of the next voiceover thing wouldhave been in sixteen. Yeah, there
were a couple of other things inthere. There was a show that I
did called Bad Dog, which islike a um a kid's cartoon, and
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I played the daughter Penelope. Thatwas also one of my one of my
first jobs. And actually that wasmy first original animation job where they were
animating to my to my voice,so I didn't have to it wasn't dubbing.
UM. And then uh, yeah, there were a couple of series
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that were recorded that never actually endedup uh getting picked up. Um,
but sixteen sixteen came around. Itcame a few years later. Yeah,
And I remember auditioning for one ofthe lead characters again and not not getting
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cast, but then later on,you know, getting this um small part
as one of the clones. Yea. And that was really the beginning of
like the fresh Um. I mean, they just they just took over,
you know. They were just sucha huge presence on that sort of team
animation scene because it went from fromthat to um two stoked yeah drama,
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you know, so, and thatwas that was I was working a lot
at that time and with total drama. Was that a moral involved edition process
or was that conscious the same asother ones? Well that kind of has
an interesting story too, actually,And I was also just thinking of a
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quick, funny anecdote about about sixteenSo I played Chrissy, who was one
of the clones, and you know, the show takes place just for your
viewers that might not know. Ittakes place in a mall and it's a
group of six teenagers that hang outthe mall and um, the Clones work
at the catchy Barn just kind oflike the Gap. And so the names
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of the characters were Chrissie, Kirsten, and Kristen. I think and and
Okay, yeah, so Lauren livesand played Kristen. I played Christie and
Stephanie Anne Mills okay, um Kirston, and we had a several sessions where
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we would mix up Kirston and Kristenor Chris. Like they couldn't remember who
was who was who in the script, so finally like am wait, am
I Kristen? Or are you ks? Are you Kirston? Or am I
Christon? And so what they endedup doing was they ended up just writing
our actual names in the script becausethere were several times when people got through
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could use so that was kind offunny. Um. So then now six
form Total drama and I auditioned forseveral characters. I actually talked about this
on my TikTok. I have aTikTok. Okay, yeah, I'll follow
me on TikTok because I talked Ianswered questions about about the Courtney character and
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Total Drama, and so I auditionedfor our rules and I didn't get anything,
okay, and I did not getcast in the show, and somebody
else was cast as Courtney, andI believe that they recorded the first episode,
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and I don't know what happened.I don't know why or how,
but I got called in as areplacement after the first episode. M crazy.
You know, I'm telling that storybecause it's widely known and it's not
a secret or anything, and soI don't know what happened. I never
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asked, but I was extremely gratefulto have the job because it ended up
being a very long running character forme. In fact, yesterday I just
recorded pickups for Total Drama Rama forthe last episode of season three. So
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it's been carrying on to this dayliterally, and um, we just had
so much fun doing that show becauseI got to sing, you know,
and I got to really develop acharacter over time, right, And that's
what That's one thing that's really coolabout it too, is that even though
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it's was on Curtain Network, likeit's very you can appreciate it even that
like more as a as an adult, Like there's a lot of adult in
Marina. Definitely. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, I know it's and again
the fans of the show. Imean, you know, I saw the
press release that I'm sure you didtoo, that they're doing movies these seasons,
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and um, I just I'm soexcited for the fans and for the
show because the fans have been askingfor it for so long. Great,
you know, so it's just theymade it happen. M And with Courtney
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two is there. Um obviously shehas like different sides to her, but
what can you relate to the most? Well, you know, they they
describe her as a type a personality, which I definitely am. I um,
um similar to her in that way. I probably can have bossy tendencies,
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but I try to be a littlebit nicer than she is. So
yeah, I mean there were therewas some there was some similar similarities for
sure. Um. But you know, she she definitely has a sharp,
sharp, clean edge to her attimes, which you know I don't identify
with or hopefully not. Um.It was really fun, I mean it's
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fun to play that kind of acharacter. Um. She has really funny
lines. The writers are amazing,really sarcastic. It's really kind of a
big rate, you know, big, big personality. And I remember when,
um, when there was singing inthe script, I said to the
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director, I said, so isCourtney a good singer? You know?
They're like, oh, yes,no, Andy she is. I was
like, well, you never know, you know, like, no,
we want her to be a goodsinger. Okay, that's right. And
it was the entire art that you'vebeen playing her. Has there ever been
anything where there were there was areally emotional space where you were like there
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was like acting brought to it orhasn't also just been comedic? I think
that the when the love story betweenCourtney and Duncan was at its best,
was at its sort of peak.Um, they had a couple of themes
together that were really really sweet,and um, you know, we got
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to do those scenes together in thestudio, which was so fun. And
you know, Drew is a greatactor, so that really helped me.
Um, and that was you know, it was also really nice to see
that softer side of Courtney, right, to see the vulnerable, tender side.
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I loved that we got to dothat. And so yeah, that
was a really nice moment of acting. And um, yeah, just being
able to express another another side ofher. I didn't want to mention to
just in regards to your music.Normally, I'm more of a rock person
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in terms of what I listened to. But I did think of your your
your cover of Way on My Youthwas really well done. Oh thank you,
Yeah, that's so nice. Iwasn't the song I was expecting you
to say. I don't know whatI was expecting, but it wasn't that.
It's a beautiful song, classic andso and then with aside from Courtney,
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with with Lori and Ldie were thosejust like given to no no.
I auditioned, okay for a bunchof different characters in the Verdunculus Race.
And actually what was so funny tome was that Katie and I were cast
as a pair. I just thoughtthat was really funny. I loved it.
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We had we had a really goodtimes. Unfortunately, our character,
you know, characters were not superlong long lived on the show, but
um yeah Verdunculus Race and Stoked Idid as well, and that was really
fun because I got to play ummissus rich Mount, who was like the
cool mom. Yeah, and itwas fun to play a character that wasn't
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a teenager too, h and andall the other like the other anime who
did with the Bacco gone more yourthoughts on or and like thoughts and stuffing
into the role of Alice. Iloved working on that show. I liked
UM the Alice character and the voicewas a little bit more, I think,
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a little bit breathier. And Iliked the challenge, you know,
the challenge of dubbing. I alwaysfind that to be I think again,
it speaks to the musician in me, you know, getting the timing just
right and and acting as you're doingas you're doing that right. So I
had a lot of fun working onthat show. UM. One of my
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best animation memories is UM Almost NakedAnimals. Oh yeah, that show was
so funny. I think you mentioned, you know, with total drama,
there's there's humor that that is appealingto teenagers but also also adults, and
this one definitely had a similar Itwas for littlar kids, but it definitely
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had some jokes that adults would appreciate. And the cast was incredible, Rob
Tinkler, Sean Cullen, I meanit was it was really a stellar,
stellar cast. The director was amazing, roland I loved that show. I
wish that show would have gone onforever. Actually Dad talked to I think
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it was earlier in the year thatI talked to Rob. Oh, did
you love him? It's amazing.Yeah, it's really amazing. Yeah,
it was really fun to watch towatch him work right. Yeah. And
David Burney also he played Duck andthat that character. I mean, the
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writing was so good. Yeah,I know, UM with a with a
more adult show with your role asTeresa and Forget About It. Oh yeah,
yeah, that was that was reallygreat to get that part because again,
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I actually I was doing two showsat the time, and Forget About
It was one of them, andthe other one was called Peg plus Cat.
And in Peg plus Cat I playeda mermaid, UM. And in
Peg plus Cat is a really sweetshow UM for little kids, teaching about
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you know, sort of basic concepts, learning about numbers and shapes. And
I was playing this singing mermaid.And then I would go to my other
job where I would play this youknow, kind of rough teenage girl and
this adult comedy Forget About It,where we got to swear and some of
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the stuff was pretty risk gay andthat that was part of the fun.
Of that show because it was like, sorry, it's so dark to say
about that. Um. That waspart of the fun of that show,
because I was like, I can'tbelieve I'm saying this. I can't believe
I get to say this is ridiculous. And one of the things that was
really fun about working on again forgetabout It was that we had to do
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um table readings. We got thewhole cast met and we would sit around
the table and read through the episodes, and that was such a luxury to
be able to do that. Thatshow went through quite a challenging few years
of development before it finally happened.Yeah. I mean I think I auditioned
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for it several years before it actuallycame to fruition, and so for a
while I didn't even think it wasgoing to happen, and then it did
and we did three seasons. Yeah. Yeah, because I was about the
ASPI looked like it went on fora few years. M I think it
was three, and um, yeah, I would have would have really loved
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for that one to continue on aswell, because again, well it's just
the people, you know, theengineers and the directors, it's just,
um, you get into a greatGroove and Total Drama Rama, the season
is over, a season three isover, and Um, when I was
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signing off on the on the call, the skype call to the director,
it was like, Okay, Imean a big you guys, just such
a fun experience. I guess,Well, in terms of voiceover, is
that the most recent thing that you'veworked on in general? Um? That
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one and a pretty recent one iscalled The Remarkable Mister King. Okay,
that's pretty new and I play askunk channel and she plays clarinet and it's
it's a really sweet show as well. Um, what else have I done
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recently? Total drama drama has beenthe most recent, which is fun because
I'm doing the younger version of Courtney. Yeah, and earlier, earlier on
in your career, did you everget, um any aspiration to move to
LA or New York? You know, I didn't, And I think part
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of the reason was that, asI mentioned earlier, like I was already
I was, I was working froma very young age, and I was
working a lot. I mean allthroughout my twenties and thirties. I didn't
feel like I was lacking for anything. You know, I thought I've got
a really good situation here. II'm getting a lot of auditions, I'm
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getting a lot of roles, I'mworking with great people, and um,
why would I leave you know right? And did your did your success in
Japan with your music surprise you?Oh? When I put out my album
Call, well, that's another reasonthat I didn't, I didn't relieve.
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I think it's because I have amajor musical community too in Toronto. UM.
When when the album Like a Lovercame out in two thousand and five,
which was my fourth album, UM, I decided to hire an entertainment
lawyer to take the album to thisuh event that happens every year in France
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and it's like a musical showcase conferencefor people who are buying shows and agents
and record companies and UM, sohe took that album with him to pitch
it, you know, to differentdifferent labels for to see if anybody one
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would be interested in in licensing itor distributing it. And one of the
people that we were interested in wasJVC in Japan, and they were very
interested in it, and so theyreleased a version of that album there and
then that followed with I think thenext several albums were released there through JVC,
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and the first I think it wasWinter Wonderland, which was my first
Christmas album that came out in twothousand and six. That was the first
time that I ever went, andthey asked me to do a Christmas show
at the Cotton Club, which islike a beautiful supper club, very reminiscent
of a New York club. Itwas actually based off of the original Cotton
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Club in Harlem, so it's likea very plush, sophisticated room with like
tiered seating. And I think thefirst time I went, I did five
nights in a row there, twoshows and nights, and we did a
couple shows in other places around Japan, and then since then I've gone pretty
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much like every year and a halfI've been back. I think I've been
ten times. And I mean forany musician who is a touring musician,
just being able to travel the worldwith your band, your bandmates playing music,
I mean there's nothing better than that, you know, experiencing different cultures,
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the food, the language, themusic, dreamy, really dreaming,
hard work. Guys. I said, we would land in the afternoon,
we would you know, be completelyturned around jet lags and then the next
day we do a sound check andthen two shows, two shows, and
XT day two shows and XT Daythree shows the x Fay. So I
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don't so not a lot of timeto do too much exploring. But over
subsequent visits, I've really grown tolove Tokyo and um, I've been so
lucky too for it with my friends. Yeah. I was wondering too,
Um if you ever worked with orMatt Kenny g because my dad's sister actually
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married as a brother. Oh okay, I never did, No, of
course I know who he is.Yeah, I think everyone does. Yeah.
Have you been like star struck interms of anybody that you've gotten to
work with musically? I recall beingstar struck when I met Feline diond Okay,
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yeah she This was a long timeago and I was singing on at
the Juno Awards. Um. Junois like like Canada's Grammys, right,
so um, I was singing forthe opening number of the show, backing
up Quebec Canadian singer from Quebec,Dame Rock Cloisine, and he had a
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very big hit that year and sohe had like a choir backing him up
and I was there and I rememberwalking from the stage to my dressing room,
and all of a sudden I turned. I just like I felt a
presence and energy entered the room.And I looked over and Celine Dion was
like floating into the room, andshe had this long black kind of cloak
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on, so that just made itall the more sort of mystical and magical.
And she looked right at me,and I probably just looked like,
you know, she looked right atme, and she said he and yeah.
I think I was only about eighteenat the time. It was.
Of course, she was a megasstar already, so that was a bit
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of a star struck moment. Doyou have usually? I usually the way
that I never interview I do wasasking what do you want yours to be?
I want people to remember me asa nice person. That's the most
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important thing, um, you know, I mean, that's the beautiful thing
about being a musician specifically, UMis the ability to create something that wasn't
there, that didn't exist before.You know, you made the piece.
You start with nothing, create apiece of music, and that piece of
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music has unlimited potential in terms ofhow it can affect other people's lives.
You know, I mean, Ithink we all have songs that I always
consider. I consider music to belike, it's the soundtrack to your life,
obviously, you know, so umsongs can bring you back to a
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certain memory, songs, music getsyou through difficult times to celebrate great great
times. So being able to contributeto a lasting, potential soundtrack to somebody's
life feels like a pretty great legacy. Or if there's in regards to your
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voiceover career, if there's anything thatyou want your fans of that to take
away from your from your performances,that's a really interesting question. You know.
I just appreciate so much I appreciatehow invested the fans of you know,
I'll say specifically Total Drama, becausethat really has a life of its
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own. I really appreciate how investedpeople are and the characters. And to
me, that that says that theentire team that created the show did a
really good job, you know,of making these characters so strong that that
people rolled onto them so fiercely,you know, and that that's that's everybody.
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It's that's the writers, you know, the creators, the animators,
the directors, and the voice actressand so all of the all of those
things come together to create these charactersthat people just are keeping alive. That's
really cool. It's really really cool. And I hope that I get to
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be on Total Rama again. Ithink they're doing a new cat, a
whole new cast, but I will, I will cross my fingers that maybe
some of us will get to makeguest appearances along the way. That would
be so fun. Well, I'msure you've seen too. I was just
about to say that it seems likethere's even a whole new legion for a
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fan base of that show because theresults, there's like a bunch of new
videos of like seven minutes of Courtneybeing iconic and support that. It's crazy.
I love it, Yeah, Ilove it. Yeah, I actually
I joined. I joined. WhenI joined, TikTok was very late to
the party, and I did,and then asked me a question about something
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like have you ever done any Ican't remember. It was like, do
you did you ever do any actingor something? I said, yes,
I have done active voice acting andI was Courtney And then it was like
what, all of a sudden,All of a sudden, I went from
you know, zero to thousands offollowers. Most of whom are Courtney fans?
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And the thing that I couldn't believewas the amount of fans created accounts
for Courtney or Dunkney or I tellyou it brings me a lot of joy.
I think it is so cool.Do you get very many messages like
about Sailormon still too? Yeah,definitely yeah and Backagon, So drama is
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the number one, But Sailor Moon, I would say, is like a
second, just a second to that. And um again, those are the
two really strong fan bases that arekeeping it alive. Yea, So keep
going and demand that Corny come back. Well. Thanks, I'm glad that
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we finally got to do this.Thank you very much, and thanks again
for for following up. And itwas great to talk to you. And
yeah, I'm I'm. I watchedsome of your other interviews and they were
really entertaining. So well, thankyou, thanks so much for having me
on cool. Well, thanks again, and that's it for this episode of
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moon Star Radio. I'm so gladyou guys we're here to learn more about
the voices behind the characters. Sofar in this mini series separate from Moonstar
Sailor Moon Podcast, we've heard fromTerry Hawks, the original voice of Sailor
Moon. We've heard from Katie GriffinSailor Mars, We've heard from Susan Roman
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Sailor Jupiter, and now we haveheard a little from Stephanie Morgan Stern and
a lot Emily Claire Barlow. Sowe've got both Sailor Venuses and Sailor Mars
from the original English dub available herefor you guys to listen to. I
love that Chris has all of theseinterviews. If you want to check out
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the videos for them, they areup on YouTube on his channel Chris Mayek.
Just search for his name there andyou'll find them. But yeah,
let us know what you thought oftoday's interview. One thing that I wanted
to mention, as you guys heardfrom the clip that I chose to include,
which was from the first time Emilywas playing Sailor Mars on the show.
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She jumped in at a really intensemoment and it required a lot of
emotional range for the character of SailorMars just write out the gate for her.
And on top of that, shewas supposed to be imitating Katie Griffin,
which, as I think a lotof if there's any voice actors listening.
I think they know it's a lotharder to imitate someone else than it
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is to just do your own thingwith the character. So I really have
to commend her for that. Andit's interesting to me that she got backlash,
but I guess that makes sense becauseno matter what the change is,
change is always hard for people ingeneral. And I am assuming it was
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just one of those like it's notthe original, so of course some people
are not going to be pleased.This is how it goes, right,
But she stepped into the role reallywell. And I remember a friend having
to tell me that the voice haschanged when I was younger because I didn't
notice. She did such a goodjob in my opinion. Of course,
now I've developed might hear more andI know that there's a change, so
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I can hear it way more clearly. But it definitely was something that had
to be directly put into my facefor me to get it. So,
you know, good job on heras both Sailor Mars and Sailor Venus.
Do you guys have a preference forher characterizations? Do you prefer Mars over
Venus for Emily? Let us knowin the comments wherever you listen and yeah,
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I'm going to close out the showtoday with Emily's version of Somewhere Over
the Rainbow. I love this song. I've always loved this song, and
her version is very unique and specificto her influences which I named earlier at
the beginning of the episode, andyou'll hear them pretty clearly in this version
of it. So if you wantto hear the full version, I'm going
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to link the YouTube link in theepisode description. Make sure you go and
support her, stream her music onyour streaming apps if you still purchase music
that by her stuff, because Ican tell you, as a creative person,
even if it's like ten cents,making any amount of money on something
that you put your heart into likethat, it feels good. So go
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out there and support support our girls, you know, even if it is
twenty years later, why not?All right, We're going to close the
show out there. For more ofChris, you can find him on Instagram
and YouTube at Chris mayech C HR S M A y e K.
Please be sure to search and followfor Moonstar Surgeon. Follow Moonstar at sailor
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Moon Podcast wherever you get your podcaststo get our regular episode coverage every week
we go from the very beginning ofSailor Moon the original English dub and just
episode by episode. If anyone's justjoining us for this interview and for more
of me, Alex, you canfind me on Instagram at Alex Summers SFE.
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Moonstar Radio and Moonstar A Sailor MoonPodcast are created for informational, educational,
and entertainment purposes only. We donot claim any ownership over the music
or sound effects used during the creationof this show. All licensed and copyrighted
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to the license and copyright holders.Where we're up that I heard of once
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in a La b so, wherethe rainbow skies are blue, and the
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dreams and she dare to dream reallydo come to someday? I wish upon
a start and wake up. Wherethe clouds are far behind, where trouble
(01:00:44):
smell like lemon drups. Where abovethe chimney tops, that's where you bye
ooza awhere over the rainbow the burstfire, it bursts far over the rainbow.
(01:01:13):
I don't know whacke
M h I bet you anything.It's those crepizoids from the Nega Moon MENA
time to go to work? HM crypta venus star. How I may
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just be one little cat, butthere's gotta be a waitus top this creep
mystery. Artemis, here's your chanceto be heroically. Oh come on,
(01:23):
guys, whose side are you on? Anyways? My side? Luna?
Oh please, Artemis, you cannotbeat all these widout animals all by your
snoll. Sure I can stand backand watch me. I'm gonna proof to
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you. I'm not punched that cat, but you olverady? Really yeah,
cats, Luda, maybe love Sha, you use your powers to turn into
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some animals into vicious Niga moon brooms. Shame on you for terrorizing people.
It is up to us to juststop you. I want for loving justice.
I'm to sanish all is evil Asailor Moon, I'm Sailor b and
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you're burnt toast toast. When I'mdone, she'll be nothing but breadcrumbs.
I know no voices from sailor Moon. Is that right? We have a
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sailor Jupiter here, who's Susan andStephanie is sor and just holding up these
pretty pictures. Yeah, can Iget you guys to do something just like
interact like as as as Sailor Jupiterand Sailor Venus beach the actresses and come
up with a himpromptu Sailor Venus SailorJupiter scene and then we'll we'll just hold
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up the pictures and you can shakethe pictures, you know, like,
oh, I say, okay,something quick, right, okay, um,
let's see okay Venus lean where isSailor room? I have no idea.
What are you talking about? Whenshe at school? She wasn't studying.
I know that. I suspect thethere's trouble coming trouble. Could it
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be tuxedo Mass. I don't tuxedomasks not in trouble. We always have
to rescue him. I know.Well I don't think that's right. I
think he always rescues us, whichI have a problem with it. Anyway,
we won't get into that right now, he won't. And then you
come over here and Aldo, whywhy are you talking about that? Is
that tuxedo mass Oppuccino walking in theonly voice I can do? What was
that out? It's so authentic?Okay, So I there's an event you
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guys are going to tonight. Yeah, what is it exactly? It's UTARPA,
which is the UFTU Anime and RolePlaying as Association, and they meet
every month and they show hours andhours worth of anime starting I think it's
tied around sixty thirty and going intoa quite late. It's just NonStop Japanese
animation, right really yea, andI hear you guys have sort of become
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fans through the shelf through doing workon the show. Yeah. I hadn't
been exposed to anime before this,and now that I'm kind of part of
an anime family, I got moreand more informed that I went to the
last UTARPA convention and it just blewmy mind, the quality of the images,
the sophistication of the stories, thestuff we never see in North America.
Yea. The Japanese very much orinto like they have comments that that
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they're no dialogue and just they dolike simple storytelling. They're still into the
stories, and whereas North America wecan all those comics where there's no dialogue
in the comic. Sometimes sometimes theyhave those kind of just picture by picture,
but you know these panels, Soyeah, I see what you mean,
so, so what is it aboutthe anime that that kind of excites
you? Guys? I mean isit the style? It's I mean,
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it definitely has a Look, well, I have to say one thing,
this is going to be my firstanime experience. I've never this is because
definitely has definitely is the one,and so this tonight will be the first
time that I can actually find outwhat it's all about firsthand myself, because
it'll hook. Yeah. Yeah,okay, we get tons and tons of
reason. What do you think thatis? It's it's it's a big it's
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a big, big thing. Yeah, well, it's neat to find that
out because we don't know that.We have no idea about that. You
have no idea? No, wedidn't know when we started doing this series.
We had no clue of the scaleof this cult. We just had
no idea. Yeah. Yeah,well, I actually maybe in the beginning,
no nobody really knew because it wasn'tme. But as soon as it
came on the Zone, I'll tellyou as a huge, huge, huge
hit. Well it's that way inevery country in which it appears. Did
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you know that? I don't knowwhy? There's something about it? I
mean, I don't know, Ialways figured positive female role models. Well
it's also I always found is great. Also you get um an ongoing story,
which you normally don't get in cartoonsat all, and that way you
get to know the character is awhole lot better. They have this mythic
history that goes on for centuries.It's a cosmic soap opera. Yeah,
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that's what it is. You knowwhat you know, you know, Toxedo
mask and it's it's kind of it'sin there in school, you know,
which is a there's a normal life. And then yeah, and also Sailor
Moon herself, who is I thinkI just whenever I see that mouth of
hers, you know, the wayshe's always going like, yeah, that
incredibly dany animation. I love thatbecause that's that's a real little girl.
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Really. Oh yeah, I know. Okay, thank you very much.
We have Okay, Susan Roman andStephanie Morganstern, thank you very much for
coming up, and Sailor Moon's comingup next. Sooga your dato on the
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show'st seem lets. Hello everybody,and welcome back to another episode of Moonstar
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Radio. Today we are getting intoa really incredible interview with Emily Claire Barlow,
who did the voice of Sailor Marsfor a portion of Sailor Moon r
that season two and Sailor Venus fourseasons three and four of the original English
dub of Sailor Moon. The clipyou heard at the beginning today was actually
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the original voice of Sailor Venus fromseason one and season two, which is
Stephanie morgan Stern. And the reasonI put that in there is because I
did a lot of digging and thatclip is pretty much the only interview I
was able to find, so Iwanted to share that with you. And
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I love her portrayal of Venus asmuch as Emily's, which we get later
on, So this was a greattime for that. And I'm going to
give you just a little info abouther. Born to a Canadian family in
Geneva, Switzerland and raised in Montreal, Quebec, morgan Stern is married to
actor Mark Ellis, who wrote withher as a writing partner. She has
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a brother, Mark morgan Stern,with whom she also co writes and directs
with. She began her career whenshe was fifteen and has worked extensively on
stage, film and television. Inboth English and French. Her most widely
seen feature film credits have been TheSweet Hereafter Mail Storm, Reward, Julie,
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I Think That's Correct, and ForbiddenLove. Morgenstern also provided the voice
for Yen in the Disney cartoon YinYang Yo and Regina in the original Dino
Crisis game produced by Capcom. Winleyrecognized as the original well because she was
the original voice actor of Mina youKnow Slash, Sailor Venus in the Deep
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and Pioneer Entertainment productions of Sailor Moonduring the first and second seasons. When
asked to return, Morgenstern declined toon account of other commitments to on screen
projects. Morganstern was replaced by EmilyClaire Barlowe, who we will hear from
later today Ray he Knows, secondvoice actress during Sailor Moon r. Morgan
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Stern, however, did reprise therole of Mina in the Sailor Moon films,
The Promise of the Rose Hearts inIce and Black Dream Hoole. Lorgan
Stern makes occasional appearances at anime conventionsat the request of fans for Sailor Moon
panel discussions. I believe the reasonshe's in the movies as well is because
the entire deep cast did the movies, so it was they did all of
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them. Even though they go upto Superass and then Cloverway only did seasons
three and four of the actual showitself. They didn't touch the movies as
far as I know. So that'sjust some information about her. I think
she does a great job as SailorVenus. But let me just set up
Emily then, because we're about todig into her interview, which I'm excited
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for you guys to get into.We learn a lot of interesting things about
her. Born to parents who wereprofessional musicians, she was encouraged to sing
and study several instruments, including piano, cello, clarinet, and violin.
By age seven, she has begunher career singing television and radio commercials.
Barlow's first album, Sings, wasreleased in nineteen ninety eight. She has
received three nominations for Canada's Juno Awardsand was named Female Vocalist of the Year
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at two thousand and eight National JazzAwards. Amongst her musical influences, Barlow
has named artists Ella Fitzgerald, TonyBennett, and Stevie Wonder. Barlow has
also provided voices for several animated televisionseries, including Sailor Venus and Sailor Mars
as we know in Sailor Moon,Bakugan, Battle Brawlers, and Total Drama,
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which she talks a lot about today. I think she really enjoyed Total
Drama the most as none of thevibe I get from her, and that's
fine. But yeah, so there'sa little about Emily and let's just jump
into the interview. I can't waitfor you guys, hear it. Also,
I put a song by her,just a little preview at the end
today because I actually really love herversion of this popular song. I think
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you guys will too. And therewill be links to support her as well
as Stephanie and whatever I can findto support her in today's episode description,
So check those out. All right, let's get into the show. All
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right, Thank you hear me?Okay, yeah, thanks for I want
to do this. Oh problem,Sorry it took me so long. Thanks
for being persistent. So I canjust start from the beginning in terms of
outside outside of your music career.I was wondering what it was like being
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in uh oh, what a night. Oh wow, that's a great way
to kick things off. You know, I haven't thought about that movie in
so long. Thank you for remindingme. Um. So, okay,
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Well, I was I think Iwas fourteen or fifteen years old, and
I was already singing professionally, andso I was kind of working already,
and I remember that I was askedto do this kind of corporate show and
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it was a sort of unusual fromwhat I was normally doing, which was
singing in studios. And some ofthe other kids that were in this corporate
show had agents, like acting agents, and so I was around that time
when I said to my mom,Mom, I want to I want to
get an acting agent. She's like, do you want to act? Okay?
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And I never So we looked aroundand we found an agent, and
then you know, my agent startedsending me out on auditions. Again.
I didn't really have much experience withthe audition process, and this movie came
one a night, and actually auditionedfor the female lead in the movie,
and for whatever reason, they tookmy performance to be comedic, and I
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wasn't trying to be funny, andso they ended up casting me as this
character of Lorraine, who was justa little part in the movie, and
she's supposed to be a kind ofa comedic role. And I was excited
to learn that I got a partin a movie, and even more excited
when I learned that Corey Haim wasthe start of a movie, right because
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he was like a teen idol,you know. I had pictures of him
on my wall from Tiger Beat magazine, and now I was going to be
in a movie with him. Sothe whole thing was quite surreal. But
one thing that I do remember isthat some people go on a movie set
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and they think, I love this, this is where I was meant to
be. I did not have thatfeeling. I did not fall in love
with the process of being on set, and there's a lot of waiting around.
So I think I decided kind ofafter a few more little appearances.
It wasn't really for me. ButI want to go back and watch that
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movie because I bet it's hilarious.How did you feel then, when a
voiceover opportunity came along in comparison,I loved it because for me, I
grew up spending time in studios.My mother is a singer and my father's
a drummer, and they were bothlike session musicians, which was they were
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extremely busy working recording musicians in theseventies and eighties in Toronto, and there
was a very big music scene inToronto. People were coming there to make
records, and so they would workevery day the week and sometimes on the
weekend in studios. So that wasa very comfortable place for me to be.
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And I started singing on commercials myselfwhen I was about eight years old.
I was in the studio and theyneeded a kid's voice, and they
could hear that I was humming themelody and I seemed to have a good
sense of pitch, and so Istarted. And then I've actually told this
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story, I think before, butI was probably not much older than that.
And I had done a few jingles, as we call them, and
I went in to do what Ithought was a jingle, but it turned
out that it was going to bea voiceover. And I felt very comfortable
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singing. Singing was something that camevery natural to me. I think I
knew that I was good at it. I felt confident. But they put
a scripts in front of me andI had it was like for a fabric
softener or something, and I thinkI had to say, oh, mommy,
you know my my towel feels sosoft or something like that, and
I got so nervous. I didn'twant to talk. And you know,
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my mom could sense that the tearswere welling up in my eyes. And
all the clients are waiting in thecontrol room, and she took me aside
and she said, honey, what'swrong. Okay, mommy, I don't
know how to talk. I onlyknow how to sing. And she she
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said, oh, okay, well, you know, if you don't want
to do what, you don't haveto. But I got through it,
and then for many years after that, I most I mostly start to singing.
And then I think when I wasaround seventeen or eighteen, um a
friend of mine and she you mightknow caw dot Um. He is a
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voice actor. He was like theoriginal Wolverine. Okay, yeah, and
he's a very very very busy,prolific voice actor. And he's a great
singer there too, And I usedto sing with him and he said to
me, hey, like, whywhy aren't you doing voiceover work? You
should be doing voiceover work. Iwas like, I don't know, and
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so he introduced me to his agents, Ed koob R and Paul Smith at
BTM ED the Talent Management, andthey have been my agents ever since.
So that's going back now almost thirtyyears, twenty five years, and so
that that's where I really started doingvoiceover work and going to voice auditions for
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announcer stuff for cartoons. That's reallywhen it started. So how long after
that then did you get the opportunityto replace Katie and Sailor Moon? Very
quickly? Actually, it was myfirst I was very lucky because it was
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my first audition and I booked itand the stars really aligned. I was,
I said, I was lucky.I was in the right place at
the right time, and I hadthe skills and I had a really good
voice match for Katie. So Isent out to this audition where I knew
that I was going to be replacingsomebody to try to match their voice.
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And so they sat me in aroom and I had never seen Sailor room
before, and I watched it andI had the scripts and I had to
do my best to sound like her, and like I said, it came
fairly easily because we just naturally havevery similar sounding voices. But I think
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that my music, my music training, my musicality, my sense of rhythm,
and my sense of pitch really reallyhelped me because I was able to
find where she was, like anactual pitch and match it and hear that
and recognize it. I was alsoable to match her speaking, you know,
speaking pattern and cadence, which issomething that's really important when you're doing
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dubbing because you have to fit inthe dialogue and a very predetermined space time.
So I think that the stars alignedfor me, you know, my
musicality, the luck of my voicesounding like hers, and signing on with
the agency. And I booked that, and I remember that I was I
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was out with my family, Ithink, like at an amusement park that
day. And I don't even thinkthat we had cell phones at that point.
Well maybe I had a cell phone, but I remember that I used
to have to call use a payphone and call to get my messages.
And I called and talked to myagencies. If you book the job episode
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sixty six and the Deek English dubfeatures Emily's dead, you a sailor Mars,
hand it over Brant or face theconsequences back off Rube. If that
overbearing loud wants you, Renie,You'll have to deal with the Sailor Scouts
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first. Fine by me, Sailorto just I'll wipe out a lot of
you wanted her all. You cantry Mars Celestial fin jes. That's all
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you've got any great meaning, Reniemust go, now, go quickly,
hurry, she's going nowhere. It'ssome kind of civil gravity've been making us
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heavy. We've got to find it. Scouts. I don't have the strength
Sailor Mercury. Maybe if we ruleour powers how you mean, we should
try the Sailor planet power. Butwithout Sailor Moon we won't have enough power
with just the farm us. We'vegot to do something. We have to
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save Reding. Oh, you're right, let's do it. Shooping ass start
power, bes, start blood,give it star by stop Sailor. Breeny
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gets going to get out of herenow, dude, I say, Brainy,
Now, don't worry, Marks,I'll take care of Brady. You
look out for yourself. No,the Chid's mine. It doesn't happen every
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day. And you booked your firsttime every every audition you go to and
it wasn't really Uh, it wasa great learning experience working on Sailor movie,
because like I said, we hadto do dubbing. You seem like
you probably know a lot about thisworld of dubbing and anime and in different
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methods of yeah, supporting cartoons,Am I right? And well? Because
Yeah, Katie was actually the firstvoice actor that I had interviewed back in
like this time last year, andI thought I was going to ask next,
because both Susan, Katie and Lindahad like separate stories of their own
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personal experience with Nicole. Nicole wasone of my very favorite, very first
voice directors, and she was shewas really tough. She was a tough
director. She would often ask usto do takes over and over and over
and over again, and you know, there was a lot of yelling,
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and so it was very taxing,very taxing. And you know, I'm
probably at that time was more naturallya kind of soft silic in person,
probably needed to work for me toget the volume that she wanted. But
I would say that she was knownfor being being a tough director, challenging
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and demanding, you know, um, and so I would say that those
sessions were quite stressful due to allof those things. And did you even
did you have to audition for Minatoo? Then? Yeah, and that
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was a really strange turn of eventsbecause um, there was a shake up,
you know, there was a shakeup of all kinds of casting,
and there was shake ups on theproduction team and director. And if I
do recall correctly, I remember gettingcalled into audition or several different roles.
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Okay, now Katie was back.I believe you probably know more than than
I do. And I remember beingvery surprised when I when I got asked
the Sailor venus because um, andthen and then I was really very much
trying to to voice match. Andthat's something I remember reading um back in
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this day, uh, you know, reading on fans forums and Sailor move
forums. There was like a lotof backlash, but they didn't like the
way I was doing the voice andyeah, I wanted to say, I'm
being directed. I don't get todecide, you know. Yeah. So,
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but it was such a fun experiencebecause I learned so much, and
whenever we got to record together asgroups, that was just the most fun
because you know, sometimes there wouldbe two or three of us that would
get to record together. If wehave a lot of lines together, and
it just really helped with with yourenergy. Um it's it also helped especially
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when you're having a tough day oryou're feeling that the director was being hard
on you and you you had thecamaraderie and the support of your fellow actors
and cast mates and we were allsort of in the same boat. So,
and could you personally related to Menaat all? No, not,
I would like to I'm going toanswer that question honestly. And I more
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felt a kinship with with Sailor Marsright, Okay, yeah, I just
I really liked the character, right, Yeah. And I know one person
from the original cast who's never beeninterviewed and nobody can really find. Now,
did you interact much with sarah LaFloor who was ran Us Oh you
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know, um, I remember hername, and I don't think that we
did many fashions together, if anyOkay, Yeah, I remember doing sessions
with Susan Susan Roman. Ye,m I think that I remember doing sessions
with Katie at some point when whenthe when the transitions at all happened.
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Oh and who played the character andshe had the little, tiny, tiny
baby voice. Oh, this isin the later seasons Greeny. Yeah,
and I'm trying to remember what hername was O Sessions, Yeah, yeah,
yeah, exactly. Yeah, wedid Sessions together. I remember that.
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But I like, I love all, I love all the people that
were involved in the show. Imean, it's a great group. And
I don't know if you're if you'veever been told of the reason why the
final season wasn't dubbed. Do youknow about the no tell me? Because
in the final season there's a groupof three guys that are also the love
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interest for the girls, but whenthey transform, like into their singular counterparts,
they transform into girls. So that'swhy I know that back then,
like that wouldn't have been allowed whereI had of their time. Yeah,
it's incredible to me how um howsolid and dedicated the Sailor Moon fandom is.
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It really blows my mind. Andso then after that, I guess
one of the next voiceover thing wouldhave been in sixteen. Yeah, there
were a couple of other things inthere. There was a show that I
did called Bad Dog, which islike a um a kid's cartoon, and
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I played the daughter Penelope. Thatwas also one of my one of my
first jobs. And actually that wasmy first original animation job where they were
animating to my to my voice,so I didn't have to it wasn't dubbing.
UM. And then uh, yeah, there were a couple of series
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that were recorded that never actually endedup uh getting picked up. Um,
but sixteen sixteen came around. Itcame a few years later. Yeah,
And I remember auditioning for one ofthe lead characters again and not not getting
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cast, but then later on,you know, getting this um small part
as one of the clones. Yea. And that was really the beginning of
like the fresh Um. I mean, they just they just took over,
you know. They were just sucha huge presence on that sort of team
animation scene because it went from fromthat to um two stoked yeah drama,
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you know, so, and thatwas that was I was working a lot
at that time and with total drama. Was that a moral involved edition process
or was that conscious the same asother ones? Well that kind of has
an interesting story too, actually,And I was also just thinking of a
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quick, funny anecdote about about sixteenSo I played Chrissy, who was one
of the clones, and you know, the show takes place just for your
viewers that might not know. Ittakes place in a mall and it's a
group of six teenagers that hang outthe mall and um, the Clones work
at the catchy Barn just kind oflike the Gap. And so the names
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of the characters were Chrissie, Kirsten, and Kristen. I think and and
Okay, yeah, so Lauren livesand played Kristen. I played Christie and
Stephanie Anne Mills okay, um Kirston, and we had a several sessions where
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we would mix up Kirston and Kristenor Chris. Like they couldn't remember who
was who was who in the script, so finally like am wait, am
I Kristen? Or are you ks? Are you Kirston? Or am I
Christon? And so what they endedup doing was they ended up just writing
our actual names in the script becausethere were several times when people got through
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could use so that was kind offunny. Um. So then now six
form Total drama and I auditioned forseveral characters. I actually talked about this
on my TikTok. I have aTikTok. Okay, yeah, I'll follow
me on TikTok because I talked Ianswered questions about about the Courtney character and
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Total Drama, and so I auditionedfor our rules and I didn't get anything,
okay, and I did not getcast in the show, and somebody
else was cast as Courtney, andI believe that they recorded the first episode,
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and I don't know what happened.I don't know why or how,
but I got called in as areplacement after the first episode. M crazy.
You know, I'm telling that storybecause it's widely known and it's not
a secret or anything, and soI don't know what happened. I never
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asked, but I was extremely gratefulto have the job because it ended up
being a very long running character forme. In fact, yesterday I just
recorded pickups for Total Drama Rama forthe last episode of season three. So
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it's been carrying on to this dayliterally, and um, we just had
so much fun doing that show becauseI got to sing, you know,
and I got to really develop acharacter over time, right, And that's
what That's one thing that's really coolabout it too, is that even though
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it's was on Curtain Network, likeit's very you can appreciate it even that
like more as a as an adult, Like there's a lot of adult in
Marina. Definitely. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, I know it's and again
the fans of the show. Imean, you know, I saw the
press release that I'm sure you didtoo, that they're doing movies these seasons,
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and um, I just I'm soexcited for the fans and for the
show because the fans have been askingfor it for so long. Great,
you know, so it's just theymade it happen. M And with Courtney
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two is there. Um obviously shehas like different sides to her, but
what can you relate to the most? Well, you know, they they
describe her as a type a personality, which I definitely am. I um,
um similar to her in that way. I probably can have bossy tendencies,
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but I try to be a littlebit nicer than she is. So
yeah, I mean there were therewas some there was some similar similarities for
sure. Um. But you know, she she definitely has a sharp,
sharp, clean edge to her attimes, which you know I don't identify
with or hopefully not. Um.It was really fun, I mean it's
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fun to play that kind of acharacter. Um. She has really funny
lines. The writers are amazing,really sarcastic. It's really kind of a
big rate, you know, big, big personality. And I remember when,
um, when there was singing inthe script, I said to the
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director, I said, so isCourtney a good singer? You know?
They're like, oh, yes,no, Andy she is. I was
like, well, you never know, you know, like, no,
we want her to be a goodsinger. Okay, that's right. And
it was the entire art that you'vebeen playing her. Has there ever been
anything where there were there was areally emotional space where you were like there
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was like acting brought to it orhasn't also just been comedic? I think
that the when the love story betweenCourtney and Duncan was at its best,
was at its sort of peak.Um, they had a couple of themes
together that were really really sweet,and um, you know, we got
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to do those scenes together in thestudio, which was so fun. And
you know, Drew is a greatactor, so that really helped me.
Um, and that was you know, it was also really nice to see
that softer side of Courtney, right, to see the vulnerable, tender side.
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I loved that we got to dothat. And so yeah, that
was a really nice moment of acting. And um, yeah, just being
able to express another another side ofher. I didn't want to mention to
just in regards to your music.Normally, I'm more of a rock person
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in terms of what I listened to. But I did think of your your
your cover of Way on My Youthwas really well done. Oh thank you,
Yeah, that's so nice. Iwasn't the song I was expecting you
to say. I don't know whatI was expecting, but it wasn't that.
It's a beautiful song, classic andso and then with aside from Courtney,
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with with Lori and Ldie were thosejust like given to no no.
I auditioned, okay for a bunchof different characters in the Verdunculus Race.
And actually what was so funny tome was that Katie and I were cast
as a pair. I just thoughtthat was really funny. I loved it.
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We had we had a really goodtimes. Unfortunately, our character,
you know, characters were not superlong long lived on the show, but
um yeah Verdunculus Race and Stoked Idid as well, and that was really
fun because I got to play ummissus rich Mount, who was like the
cool mom. Yeah, and itwas fun to play a character that wasn't
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a teenager too, h and andall the other like the other anime who
did with the Bacco gone more yourthoughts on or and like thoughts and stuffing
into the role of Alice. Iloved working on that show. I liked
UM the Alice character and the voicewas a little bit more, I think,
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a little bit breathier. And Iliked the challenge, you know,
the challenge of dubbing. I alwaysfind that to be I think again,
it speaks to the musician in me, you know, getting the timing just
right and and acting as you're doingas you're doing that right. So I
had a lot of fun working onthat show. UM. One of my
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best animation memories is UM Almost NakedAnimals. Oh yeah, that show was
so funny. I think you mentioned, you know, with total drama,
there's there's humor that that is appealingto teenagers but also also adults, and
this one definitely had a similar Itwas for littlar kids, but it definitely
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had some jokes that adults would appreciate. And the cast was incredible, Rob
Tinkler, Sean Cullen, I meanit was it was really a stellar,
stellar cast. The director was amazing, roland I loved that show. I
wish that show would have gone onforever. Actually Dad talked to I think
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it was earlier in the year thatI talked to Rob. Oh, did
you love him? It's amazing.Yeah, it's really amazing. Yeah,
it was really fun to watch towatch him work right. Yeah. And
David Burney also he played Duck andthat that character. I mean, the
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writing was so good. Yeah,I know, UM with a with a
more adult show with your role asTeresa and Forget About It. Oh yeah,
yeah, that was that was reallygreat to get that part because again,
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I actually I was doing two showsat the time, and Forget About
It was one of them, andthe other one was called Peg plus Cat.
And in Peg plus Cat I playeda mermaid, UM. And in
Peg plus Cat is a really sweetshow UM for little kids, teaching about
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you know, sort of basic concepts, learning about numbers and shapes. And
I was playing this singing mermaid.And then I would go to my other
job where I would play this youknow, kind of rough teenage girl and
this adult comedy Forget About It,where we got to swear and some of
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the stuff was pretty risk gay andthat that was part of the fun.
Of that show because it was like, sorry, it's so dark to say
about that. Um. That waspart of the fun of that show,
because I was like, I can'tbelieve I'm saying this. I can't believe
I get to say this is ridiculous. And one of the things that was
really fun about working on again forgetabout It was that we had to do
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um table readings. We got thewhole cast met and we would sit around
the table and read through the episodes, and that was such a luxury to
be able to do that. Thatshow went through quite a challenging few years
of development before it finally happened.Yeah. I mean I think I auditioned
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for it several years before it actuallycame to fruition, and so for a
while I didn't even think it wasgoing to happen, and then it did
and we did three seasons. Yeah. Yeah, because I was about the
ASPI looked like it went on fora few years. M I think it
was three, and um, yeah, I would have would have really loved
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for that one to continue on aswell, because again, well it's just
the people, you know, theengineers and the directors, it's just,
um, you get into a greatGroove and Total Drama Rama, the season
is over, a season three isover, and Um, when I was
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signing off on the on the call, the skype call to the director,
it was like, Okay, Imean a big you guys, just such
a fun experience. I guess,Well, in terms of voiceover, is
that the most recent thing that you'veworked on in general? Um? That
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one and a pretty recent one iscalled The Remarkable Mister King. Okay,
that's pretty new and I play askunk channel and she plays clarinet and it's
it's a really sweet show as well. Um, what else have I done
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recently? Total drama drama has beenthe most recent, which is fun because
I'm doing the younger version of Courtney. Yeah, and earlier, earlier on
in your career, did you everget, um any aspiration to move to
LA or New York? You know, I didn't, And I think part
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of the reason was that, asI mentioned earlier, like I was already
I was, I was working froma very young age, and I was
working a lot. I mean allthroughout my twenties and thirties. I didn't
feel like I was lacking for anything. You know, I thought I've got
a really good situation here. II'm getting a lot of auditions, I'm
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getting a lot of roles, I'mworking with great people, and um,
why would I leave you know right? And did your did your success in
Japan with your music surprise you?Oh? When I put out my album
Call, well, that's another reasonthat I didn't, I didn't relieve.
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I think it's because I have amajor musical community too in Toronto. UM.
When when the album Like a Lovercame out in two thousand and five,
which was my fourth album, UM, I decided to hire an entertainment
lawyer to take the album to thisuh event that happens every year in France
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and it's like a musical showcase conferencefor people who are buying shows and agents
and record companies and UM, sohe took that album with him to pitch
it, you know, to differentdifferent labels for to see if anybody one
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would be interested in in licensing itor distributing it. And one of the
people that we were interested in wasJVC in Japan, and they were very
interested in it, and so theyreleased a version of that album there and
then that followed with I think thenext several albums were released there through JVC,
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and the first I think it wasWinter Wonderland, which was my first
Christmas album that came out in twothousand and six. That was the first
time that I ever went, andthey asked me to do a Christmas show
at the Cotton Club, which islike a beautiful supper club, very reminiscent
of a New York club. Itwas actually based off of the original Cotton
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Club in Harlem, so it's likea very plush, sophisticated room with like
tiered seating. And I think thefirst time I went, I did five
nights in a row there, twoshows and nights, and we did a
couple shows in other places around Japan, and then since then I've gone pretty
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much like every year and a halfI've been back. I think I've been
ten times. And I mean forany musician who is a touring musician,
just being able to travel the worldwith your band, your bandmates playing music,
I mean there's nothing better than that, you know, experiencing different cultures,
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the food, the language, themusic, dreamy, really dreaming,
hard work. Guys. I said, we would land in the afternoon,
we would you know, be completelyturned around jet lags and then the next
day we do a sound check andthen two shows, two shows, and
XT day two shows and XT Daythree shows the x Fay. So I
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don't so not a lot of timeto do too much exploring. But over
subsequent visits, I've really grown tolove Tokyo and um, I've been so
lucky too for it with my friends. Yeah. I was wondering too,
Um if you ever worked with orMatt Kenny g because my dad's sister actually
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married as a brother. Oh okay, I never did, No, of
course I know who he is.Yeah, I think everyone does. Yeah.
Have you been like star struck interms of anybody that you've gotten to
work with musically? I recall beingstar struck when I met Feline diond Okay,
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yeah she This was a long timeago and I was singing on at
the Juno Awards. Um. Junois like like Canada's Grammys, right,
so um, I was singing forthe opening number of the show, backing
up Quebec Canadian singer from Quebec,Dame Rock Cloisine, and he had a
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very big hit that year and sohe had like a choir backing him up
and I was there and I rememberwalking from the stage to my dressing room,
and all of a sudden I turned. I just like I felt a
presence and energy entered the room.And I looked over and Celine Dion was
like floating into the room, andshe had this long black kind of cloak
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on, so that just made itall the more sort of mystical and magical.
And she looked right at me,and I probably just looked like,
you know, she looked right atme, and she said he and yeah.
I think I was only about eighteenat the time. It was.
Of course, she was a megasstar already, so that was a bit
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of a star struck moment. Doyou have usually? I usually the way
that I never interview I do wasasking what do you want yours to be?
I want people to remember me asa nice person. That's the most
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important thing, um, you know, I mean, that's the beautiful thing
about being a musician specifically, UMis the ability to create something that wasn't
there, that didn't exist before.You know, you made the piece.
You start with nothing, create apiece of music, and that piece of
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music has unlimited potential in terms ofhow it can affect other people's lives.
You know, I mean, Ithink we all have songs that I always
consider. I consider music to belike, it's the soundtrack to your life,
obviously, you know, so umsongs can bring you back to a
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certain memory, songs, music getsyou through difficult times to celebrate great great
times. So being able to contributeto a lasting, potential soundtrack to somebody's
life feels like a pretty great legacy. Or if there's in regards to your
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voiceover career, if there's anything thatyou want your fans of that to take
away from your from your performances,that's a really interesting question. You know.
I just appreciate so much I appreciatehow invested the fans of you know,
I'll say specifically Total Drama, becausethat really has a life of its
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own. I really appreciate how investedpeople are and the characters. And to
me, that that says that theentire team that created the show did a
really good job, you know,of making these characters so strong that that
people rolled onto them so fiercely,you know, and that that's that's everybody.
(52:10):
It's that's the writers, you know, the creators, the animators,
the directors, and the voice actressand so all of the all of those
things come together to create these charactersthat people just are keeping alive. That's
really cool. It's really really cool. And I hope that I get to
(52:32):
be on Total Rama again. Ithink they're doing a new cat, a
whole new cast, but I will, I will cross my fingers that maybe
some of us will get to makeguest appearances along the way. That would
be so fun. Well, I'msure you've seen too. I was just
about to say that it seems likethere's even a whole new legion for a
(52:54):
fan base of that show because theresults, there's like a bunch of new
videos of like seven minutes of Courtneybeing iconic and support that. It's crazy.
I love it, Yeah, Ilove it. Yeah, I actually
I joined. I joined. WhenI joined, TikTok was very late to
the party, and I did,and then asked me a question about something
(53:24):
like have you ever done any Ican't remember. It was like, do
you did you ever do any actingor something? I said, yes,
I have done active voice acting andI was Courtney And then it was like
what, all of a sudden,All of a sudden, I went from
you know, zero to thousands offollowers. Most of whom are Courtney fans?
(53:46):
And the thing that I couldn't believewas the amount of fans created accounts
for Courtney or Dunkney or I tellyou it brings me a lot of joy.
I think it is so cool.Do you get very many messages like
about Sailormon still too? Yeah,definitely yeah and Backagon, So drama is
(54:10):
the number one, But Sailor Moon, I would say, is like a
second, just a second to that. And um again, those are the
two really strong fan bases that arekeeping it alive. Yea, So keep
going and demand that Corny come back. Well. Thanks, I'm glad that
(54:31):
we finally got to do this.Thank you very much, and thanks again
for for following up. And itwas great to talk to you. And
yeah, I'm I'm. I watchedsome of your other interviews and they were
really entertaining. So well, thankyou, thanks so much for having me
on cool. Well, thanks again, and that's it for this episode of
(54:57):
moon Star Radio. I'm so gladyou guys we're here to learn more about
the voices behind the characters. Sofar in this mini series separate from Moonstar
Sailor Moon Podcast, we've heard fromTerry Hawks, the original voice of Sailor
Moon. We've heard from Katie GriffinSailor Mars, We've heard from Susan Roman
(55:19):
Sailor Jupiter, and now we haveheard a little from Stephanie Morgan Stern and
a lot Emily Claire Barlow. Sowe've got both Sailor Venuses and Sailor Mars
from the original English dub available herefor you guys to listen to. I
love that Chris has all of theseinterviews. If you want to check out
(55:39):
the videos for them, they areup on YouTube on his channel Chris Mayek.
Just search for his name there andyou'll find them. But yeah,
let us know what you thought oftoday's interview. One thing that I wanted
to mention, as you guys heardfrom the clip that I chose to include,
which was from the first time Emilywas playing Sailor Mars on the show.
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She jumped in at a really intensemoment and it required a lot of
emotional range for the character of SailorMars just write out the gate for her.
And on top of that, shewas supposed to be imitating Katie Griffin,
which, as I think a lotof if there's any voice actors listening.
I think they know it's a lotharder to imitate someone else than it
(56:23):
is to just do your own thingwith the character. So I really have
to commend her for that. Andit's interesting to me that she got backlash,
but I guess that makes sense becauseno matter what the change is,
change is always hard for people ingeneral. And I am assuming it was
(56:43):
just one of those like it's notthe original, so of course some people
are not going to be pleased.This is how it goes, right,
But she stepped into the role reallywell. And I remember a friend having
to tell me that the voice haschanged when I was younger because I didn't
notice. She did such a goodjob in my opinion. Of course,
now I've developed might hear more andI know that there's a change, so
(57:05):
I can hear it way more clearly. But it definitely was something that had
to be directly put into my facefor me to get it. So,
you know, good job on heras both Sailor Mars and Sailor Venus.
Do you guys have a preference forher characterizations? Do you prefer Mars over
Venus for Emily? Let us knowin the comments wherever you listen and yeah,
(57:28):
I'm going to close out the showtoday with Emily's version of Somewhere Over
the Rainbow. I love this song. I've always loved this song, and
her version is very unique and specificto her influences which I named earlier at
the beginning of the episode, andyou'll hear them pretty clearly in this version
of it. So if you wantto hear the full version, I'm going
(57:50):
to link the YouTube link in theepisode description. Make sure you go and
support her, stream her music onyour streaming apps if you still purchase music
that by her stuff, because Ican tell you, as a creative person,
even if it's like ten cents,making any amount of money on something
that you put your heart into likethat, it feels good. So go
(58:12):
out there and support support our girls, you know, even if it is
twenty years later, why not?All right, We're going to close the
show out there. For more ofChris, you can find him on Instagram
and YouTube at Chris mayech C HR S M A y e K.
Please be sure to search and followfor Moonstar Surgeon. Follow Moonstar at sailor
(58:34):
Moon Podcast wherever you get your podcaststo get our regular episode coverage every week
we go from the very beginning ofSailor Moon the original English dub and just
episode by episode. If anyone's justjoining us for this interview and for more
of me, Alex, you canfind me on Instagram at Alex Summers SFE.
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Moonstar Radio and Moonstar A Sailor MoonPodcast are created for informational, educational,
and entertainment purposes only. We donot claim any ownership over the music
or sound effects used during the creationof this show. All licensed and copyrighted
materials used during the creation of MoonstarRadio and Moonstar Sailor Moon Podcast belong expressly
to the license and copyright holders.Where we're up that I heard of once
(59:54):
in a La b so, wherethe rainbow skies are blue, and the
(01:00:17):
dreams and she dare to dream reallydo come to someday? I wish upon
a start and wake up. Wherethe clouds are far behind, where trouble
(01:00:44):
smell like lemon drups. Where abovethe chimney tops, that's where you bye
ooza awhere over the rainbow the burstfire, it bursts far over the rainbow.
(01:01:13):
I don't know whacke
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